Ron Unz, Ukraine and Biowarfare Conspiracy Theories

by Ron Unz Several days ago a mainstream policy analyst dropped me a note mentioning that the Russians were claiming to have discovered the existence of a network of biowarfare labs in Ukraine, funded by the American Pentagon and allegedly working with anthrax and plague. Given that much of my focus over the last two years had been on America’s biowarfare program and its possible deployment, he wondered what I thought about the matter. I’d seen some of the same Russian accusations swirling around the Internet, and hadn’t paid much attention. On…